Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1998

Representative Publications

Caucutt, Elizabeth, and Lance Lochner, “Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family,” Journal of Political Economy, 128(3), 2020:1065-1147. (Online Appendix)

"Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy," in E. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, vol. 5, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier Science (2016), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

"The Impact of Family Income On Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit," American Economic Review (2012), with Gordon B. Dahl. (Online Appendix)

"Credit Constraints in Education," Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 4: 225-256 (2012), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo.

"The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" American Economic Review, 101(6): 2487-2529 (October 2011), with Alexander Monge-Naranjo. (Online Appendix)

"Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System," American Economic Review, 97(1): 444-460 (March 2007).

"The Effect of Education on Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates, Arrests, and Self-Reports," American Economic Review, 94(1): 155-189 (March 2004), with E. Moretti.

"Explaining Rising Wage Inequality: Explorations with a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model of Labor Earnings with Heterogeneous Agents," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(1) (January 1998), with J. Heckman and C. Taber.